Tales from Shakespeare was written by
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and his sister Mary Lamb
(1764-1847) in 1807 as a prose adaptation for
children. We present here the edition as illustrated
by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) in 1899 and 1909.
Mary wrote most of the comedies, about 14 of the 20.

We use the public domain files first scanned by
Tokuya Matsumoto and donated to Project Gutenberg.
However, we correct many misspellings
(e.g., "velour" for "valour")
and restore italicized phrases. We have added tailpieces
to several stories whose page layout in the book did not
require them; we have moved the position of the pictures
to the appropriate places in the text, and we could not
reproduce a couple of textual tricks such as tapering
indents in the last paragraphs of two stories. We have
changed the original text and line art color from black
on white to brown on yellow.